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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by ocdtrekkie on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:53AM (#19172422)
What would you be trying to "fix" here? More often than not, the first result for a given query on most common search engines is the correct, authoritative source for something. If I search for a company, the company's official website is nearly always the first real result.

The only thing I think is really wrong with search (and all major search engines right now are guilty of this) is making paid ads look very similar to real results, which makes it possible to pay to hijack a result.

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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by vidarh on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:52PM (#19173022)
They're referring to a conversation in 1994. In 1994 that was definitively not the case.
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by JohnFen on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:11PM (#19173208)
> More often than not, the first result for a given query on most common search engines is the correct, authoritative source for something.

I can't remember that happening in years with Google. Now, it's unusual if the thing I'm searching for even appears in the first page.

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